English Vocab Wuthering Heights
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- abjured
- to abstain from
- apellation
- the act of naming
- asunder
- in separate pieces
- avarice
- greed
- bane
- slayer;killer
- blackguard
- villian
- cambric
- finely woven linens
- churlish
- difficult to work with;vulgar
- clamour
- loud noises
- compunction
- hesitation or sense of regret
- consumption
- tuberculosis
- copious
- in large quantity
- curate
- religious teacher
- deranged
- insane
- destitute
- lacking something;as in structure
- diabolical
- satanic;wickedness or cruelty
- dilatory
- slow
- discomfited
- embarassed;not comfortable
- disenchanted
- disappointed
- dispatched
- sent to a destination
- disquietude
- feelings of anxiety
- dissented
- to disagree
- dissipation
- intemperance
- elysium
- place of ideal happiness
- emulated
- imitated
- enigmatic
- obscure; unusual
- epistle
- letter
- execration
- act of cussing
- expedient
- self interest;taking the easy way out
- filial
- benefiting a son or daughter
- heterodox
- heretical; unorthodox
- immolation
- to kill ones self by fire
- impertinence
- improperly bold;rude;not polite
- importuned
- to repeatedly request;beg;to plead
- incipient
- beginning to exist
- interdict
- to forbid
- iteration
- repeated statement
- lachrymose
- tearful;crying
- languid
- sluggish;dull
- magisterial
- authoritative, imperious
- malignancy
- disposed to do evil
- misanthropist
- one who hates or distrusts mankind
- mortified
- shamed;appalled
- munificent
- generous
- obdurate
- hard heartedness; inflexible
- obviated
- to prevent; make unnecessary
- odious
- hatefull;horrible
- paragon
- touchston
- paroxysm
- spasm
- penetralium
- inner parts/workings;center
- reproached
- disgraced
- reproved
- to scold or correct
- sagacity
- wisdom; sound in judgement
- salubrious
- benefiting to health
- scruple
- principle
- sexton
- church employee who works in graveyard
- smiting
- striking by hand
- soliloquized
- spoken outloud;a speech
- sundry
- various
- tacit
- inferred by actions or statements
- tenure
- act of holding in possesion
- trepidation
- fear;quivering
- usurped
- to take over without right
- vapid
- dull;lacking energy
- vigilant
- to keep awake
- vindicative
- vengeful;revenge
- vociferating
- to cry out loudly; scream vigorously